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		naniwaduni on July 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer In the C++ world, you almost certainly don't need headers in prod.

umanwizard on July 29, 2019 | [–]

Yes, true. What’s your point? You still need libjpg to be either statically linked into your executable or present on the target system.

liveoneggs on July 29, 2019 | [–]

headers are not libraries

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